Well, I recently decided to get shot of most of my pedals and only keep a drive and delay. Then decided that I quite fancied a reverb pedal, both for ambient stuff and to use with the Princeton I will soon be building which is reverb-less. Settled on the Supernatural as it looked easy to use and is praised all over the interweb. Well, now that the honeymoon is over I am a bit disappointed with it, the plate and spring mode are pretty good but the ambient stuff is too processed and eighties sounding to my ears. Sounds very digital, which is okay sometimes but not what I was after. Luckily I bought from Andertons so will take advantage of their excellent 30 day exchange facility and replace with a Strymon Blue Sky.
I recently picked up a El Cap on here to replace my Flashback and they are night and day, using the El cap 'feels' like using my old Roland Space Echo. Used to have the Mobius but can't be arsed with the hassle of menu driven big box pedals so am happier with Strymon's five knob pedals. I know some people feel the Strymon stuff is a bit soulless, and I kind of agreed with that with the Mobius but the El Cap is great. Hope the Blue Sky is similar.
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I dunno. I loved my Wet and Dr Scientist RRR in the past, but the Big Sky is leagues in front of the others. Ironically, I use a Timeline now, but mainly on the 'tape' setting. I may yet get an El Cap....
Imho, you won't regret it... By the way, which drive didnt you end up keeping/favouring ?
You guys! Andertons' quaintly named "Mail Order" department was closed yesterday so I need to give them a phone today and now you have got me considering the Big Sky rather than the Blue Sky. I'll have a wee think about it but I think I will probably stick with the Blue Sky, at least initially, for two reasons - not a fan of menu driven pedals like I said and the price - over £400 for reverb!! Think that is more than I want to spend!
Waz - I kept the Lazy J Cruiser. Have tried loads and this works best for what I want with my gear.
I love the strymons by the way. Just sold my el cap and got a timeline and möbius. Mainly to use the midi side of things. Very happy but will miss that el cap
I know, you sold it to me! :-)
@Gagaryn said "Well, just phoned Andertons - went for the Big Sky after all", RESULT!
Actually for me; BigSky = Argument with my accountant (Mrs Roog) in about 6 months time!
If I told her it cost half what it actually cost it would still be 4x the figure she has in mind.
Still, I have plenty of time to think up a "feeble excuse".
Despite my reservations about the Supernatural, I found myself really enjoying the kinds of effects it offered, which is why I thought it might be worth spending a bit more in something better. It was @JohnPerry comments that made me reconsider the Blue Sky (have a wisdom, sir) and led to me shelling out for the Big Sky. I hadn't considered it before, thinking the Blue Sky would offer sufficient improvement. Haven't even heard any demos yet - deliberately avoided them when it wasn't on my shopping list and can't access YT from my office.